Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti
Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti (1640–1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Genoa.
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St Philip Neri in contemplation of the Virgin and Child, altarpiece in the church of Santi Nicolò ed Erasmo (Voltri)
Bertolotti specialized in paintings having scenes of a mythological, historical or religious nature as subjects.[1]
He trained under Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Bertolotti contributed paintings to the Oratory of San Giacomo della Marina and the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata. He painted a Visitation of the Virgin to Saint Elizabeth for the church of La Visitazione.
References
- Soprani, Raffaello (1769). Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (ed.). Delle vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi; Tomo secundo scritto da Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. Genoa: Stamperia Casamara. pp. 102–105.
- Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione. Vol. 1. Milan: Gaetano Schiepatti. p. 155.
- "BERTOLOTTO, Giovanni Lorenzo in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-15.
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 119–120.
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